"HEARTS OF THE WORLD."

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17533, 27 January 1919, Page 7

"HEARTS OF THE WORLD."

Interest in that powerful and realistic film spectacle " Hearts of the World," which is now doing a brief return season in Dunedin, is being unusually well sustained, His Majesty's Theatre being packed at both screenings on Saturday, tho matineo being particularly well patronised. It is recognised that -this stupendous production of D. W. Griffith's eclipses all previous efforts, and surpasses in realistic effects, and in most other , particulars, such good pictures as '' Intolerance" and "The Birth of a Nation." It is a veritable triumph in kinomatography. The battle scenes taken on the western front thrill tho spectator with a sense of their realism, the tens© situations, both on the battlefield and in tho villages thereto, are features which will not readily be (forgotten by thoso who have witnessed tho screening. So realistic is the production that one is transported to tho actual field of action. In addition to the war and other scenes incidental to the story, there are qnito a number of interesting scenes which have a more or less indirect bearing on the greatest war in history. Scenes in the British House of Commons, when Sir Edward Gray makes his famous announcement in the House of Commons, and the French Chamber of Deputies when tho declaration of war is announced. Life-like pictures of Mr Lloyd George and other notables are exceptionally good. A feature which is very pronounced is-the excellent acting of a very largo cast, which includes the wonderful tiny child actor, Ben Alexander. The picture will bo screened again this, to-morrow, and Wednesday evenings, and on Wednesday there will be a final matinee.